February 7, 2012

... as they did today with the Proposition 8 vote against gay marriage on the grounds that majority rule violates minority rights, can they please also throw out Proposition 1A from the same ballot? As you'll recall, California's majority of marching morons voted to borrow $10 billion for a SuperTrain! that would go vroom-vroom between Los Angeles and San Francisco real fast. (It's now expected to cost $98 billion). As a member of California's endangered and oppressed minority of non-morons, I want the $10 billion back.

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Eh. The state probably isn't even going to go through with the bond sale. At this point the only people really pushing it are a few Central Valley Democrats (because their section is getting built first).

Been tried all across the USA, East to West. My late mother who was born in 1918 talked about the vast interurban trolley networks of her childood and young adulthood and visiting relatives on them in Pennsylvania and (I think) Ohio.

Google Interurban Trolleys and see the history.

The interurbans could not compete with the automobile and constantly improving road system in the 20th century.

Rail only works between highly dense, geographically compact urban centers with dense mass transit systems (e.g. NY to Boston). Otherwise, when you step off that high-speed rail in Fresno or wherever, where the hell do you go without a car?

You step off in Manhattan or Boston, you can get everywhere you need to go.

Europe has many such urban centers with effective mass transit within short distances. It's not that hard to figure this stuff out.

Though perhaps California could combine initiatives and have a "Glory Holes Car" on the high-speed rail where you can pass the time engaged in entertaining activities which are smiled upon by our betters.

This is why Matt Yglesias wants to empty out 90% of the people from the suburbs and rurals and move them into New York, Boston, D.C., Chicago, LA, and a few other hubs (perhaps everyone in the smaller states can congregate in the largest city in their respective state, so all Mainers would live in Portland, all New Hampshirites in Concord, etc.

having talked with liberals for a long time now, i can tell you that they will go to enormous lengths and construct truly impressive logic pretzels to justify ANYTHING for which they feel some deep, passionate to defend. and they are arrogant and condescending about it, insinuating that YOU are the moron for not seeing how self evidently correct they are. like you would have to be positively stupid and backwards to not see how right they are.

gay marriage is just one of these things. 10 years from now, when mestizos or africans are the largest group in a few states, liberals will go through TREMENDOUS mental gymnastics to explain why it is utterly, obviously correct to continue to give them preferential treatment in every aspect of law, and to continue to discriminate against europeans, even though europeans are just another outnumbered group at that point.

eventually due to demographics, the majority of people will get affirmative action in california, and nobody could explain why this makes sense better to you than a unsufferably pretentious liberal. if you think, hey, maybe the biggest group doesn't need affirmative action now, you'll quickly be told how stupid and wrong you are.

thankfully, reality intrudes on their delusions sometimes. their laughably retarded high speed train will never be built. liberals aren't too good at math, physics, or engineering. heck, the secretary of energy is a professional physicist with a nobel prize in physics, yet he's clueless about...energy.

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